Atlas of the Skies
Publisher: Taj Books
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781844060115
Subjects: Astronomical Maps And Guides; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; History / Military / Other; Atlases - General
First sentence: Astronomy, i.e. the study of the heavenly bodies, of their movements, of the phenomena associated with them, is certainly the oldest science: one can say it was born with man, intimately bound to his nature of being a thinker, to his need to measure time, to "organise" the things he understood (or believed he understood), to his need to find direction, to orientate himself in his travels, to organise his agricultural work, more in general, to command nature and the seasons and to plan the future.